Propupa
Extinct genus of gastropods
| Propupa Temporal range: Eocene[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | |
| Family: | ? |
| Genus: | †Propupa Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1] |
| Species: | †P. hoffeinsorum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Propupa hoffeinsorum Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1] | |
Propupa is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Pupilloidea. Propupa hoffeinsorum is the only species in the genus Propupa, and was described from a fossil found in Baltic amber in 2006.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Stworzewicz E., Pokryszko B. M. (2006). "Eocene terrestrial snails (Gastropoda) from Baltic amber". Annales Zoologici 56(1): 215-224. abstract, abstract
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